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by bad_user 5741 days ago
OK, sorry, I misunderstood your point.

Yes, it makes a lot of sense to do Javascript server-side for templating (client-side only is still tricky because of concerns related to crawlers, like search-engines).

But on the other hand, I would prefer the JVM with Rhino, not Node.js ... especially since using Java NIO you can have scalability for I/O bound requests similar to Node.js.
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kls 5741 days ago
No I don't do any templating server side, it is a waste of server resources. So all of our templating Header, footer, static articles are in a CMS all dynamic elements are done via JavaScript. We use a headless web browser to serve pages to crawlers from a dedicated server. It acts as a parser for the crawlers and when it sees a crawler agent and the hash mark it acts as the client Javascript engine and composites the page. This way, we don't have a hand coded solution for a platform problem that is infrastructure related.
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